Word: syndicat
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Following World War II the majority, the majos, wanted IUNEF to remain apolitical but a growing minority, the minos, demanded the creation of a student syndicat. Generally the majos stayed in power, often with contributions from the government at election time, under the direction of law and medical students who reasoned more like future doctors and lawyers than students...
...more crucial was the problem that no one could agree what to do next. The minos at l'UNEF, who had become the majos during the war, adopted a "ligne universitaire," their long-awaited dream of making l'UNEF into a student syndicat which would defend student interests through strikes, demonstrations, and occupations of classrooms. Despite consistent attempts at sabotage by the former majos the ligne universitaire initially caught the imagination of the students. But after its aborted attempt to prevent the Sorbonne visit of Prime Minister Segni of Italy, l'UNEF steadily dechned in influence. With 100,000 memoers...
France, which came to terms quite easily with jet planes and nuclear weapons, last week conceded it cannot cope with the horseless carriage. Some 5,000 irate citizens jammed Paris' Palais des Sports-and 10,000 more were turned away-for the first meeting of the newly formed Syndicat National des Automobilistes. Their purpose: to protest the government's indifference to the motorists of France...
Cars on Rails. Last week's mass meeting at the Palais des Sports was sponsored by the biweekly L'Auto-Journal, whose editors founded the Syndicat National des Automobilistes, and have, since October, received 370,000 applications for membership. The syndicat's immediate goal is to "put an end to the scorn with which public powers treat the fundamental highway and traffic problems." The meeting started 30 minutes late because, as the announcer pointed out, of "slow-moving traffic," and ended tumultuously when the hall was darkened and the audience was suddenly showered with thousands upon thousands...
...British Rothschilds, who still are the world's most important bullion dealers, have started a factoring company, an investment advisory service and two mutual funds, are participating in a consortium to underwrite pay TV and in a group of Europe's gilt-edge banks called Euro-syndicat, which was organized to seize opportunities in the Common Market...